happy new year's rockin' eve everyone! i am going to do some chillin' and relaxin' at home this year. but first, i'm heading over to church to eat some delish dduk guk. yum yum.

internet's been working not so good at home lately. so no post yesterday. saaaad.
anyways, i've been a busy bee shopper the past couple days. well, just yesterday and today. yesterday, i bought some new sneakers-- new balances. they are cool. i tell myself i will work out now that i have sweet new shoes, but i guess we'll see when school starts. the thing with working out is that it invovles a lot of sweating. and i'm just not down with that. today, i bought a business suit! cool! i guess i'm just getting old. the thing is, it is a pain in the ass trying to find one of those, cause i'm a short girl, and i just can't wear tall girl clothes. i have to shop specifically in the petite section, and it's hard to shop in that section and not come out looking like a maaaad grandma. ]

movies i want to see: two towers (i know i've already seen it, but aragorn and legolas are just callin' out my name!!), chicago, catch me if you can, nemesis.... can anyone think of anything else? hum. that might be it.

Regarding my cell phone:
I dropped it during finals week, and I broke it. One of the hinges broke, so the top half was falling off the bottom half. It worked for a while, but then I accidentally dropped it again, and the other hinge kind fo started coming off, and the screen stopped working.
So, then Susanna Han gave me her old phone, the same one as mine that she don't use no more. Yay Susanna! However, I can't figure out how to erase her old phone book, cause there's this security lock code thing going on that we have on, and we have no idea what the code is. Even worse, the screen on my old phone don't work, so I lost all my phone numbers.
The moral of this story: don't drop your phone. Also, I would love to be calling all my friends out there, but I lost all cell numbers, so I can't. So call me!

Hello! I'm back! I just spent the last couple days in snowy, cold Lake Tahoe! It is very very gorgeous there. I went with the college/young adult group on our annual retreat. Good times, good fellowship, good bible study. I enjoyed it immensely. Here's the 411 on who was on this retreat. :
Jenny Kim Jane Kim Susanna Kim (DUDE. You DO NOT have mono!) Susanna Han Joanna Lee Michelle Chang Kristine Lee Phil (Holla West Punjab) David Han (he rolled down a hill like a movie stuntman) Cy Kim Jason Hahn Jeffrey Hahn (narcoleptic boy) Mike Kim (he has naked roommates) Tim Cho and Dan Kwon. I love all these suckas.
But let me tell you-- I had some maaaad gas up while I was up there. Perhaps stemming from the constipation I was also feeling. I know that's gross, but that's just the way it was.
Do you know what game I love? Moose! Hooray for Moose! We played group Moose and silent Moose. I also kicked some butt in Cranium. My team didn't win either of the games I played in, but I still kicked butt. Do you know what BMX stands for? I DO!! Can you hum That's Amore? I CAN! Can you spell delicatessen? I can't. dangit. If I had just spelled that right, me and Susanna would have won last night. alas, not meant to be.

On a sad note, I was in Tahoe today so I could't make it to Sarah Wilczak's moms memorial service. I really wish I could have been there, and it was on my mind most of the day. My thoughts and prayers are really with Sarah and her family, and I hope they are comforted by the fact that Mrs. Wilczak is in heaven rejoicing with Jesus.

Peace y'all.

Hey, you wanna know my favorite Christmas song?

Oh Holy Night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Savior's birth
Long lay the world
In sin and error pining
till he appeared and the soul felt it's worth
Fall on your knees
oh, hear the angel's pining
Oh night divine
Oh night when Christ was born
Oh night divine
Oh night when Christ was born

Merry Christmas! I am thankful for so many things this year, but especially the gift of Jesus Christ. AMEN!

jesus is the reason for the season! it's been kind of difficult for me to remember that lately. christmas shopping sucks a lot out of me. today, i went to westgate, specifically old navy and target. okay, at old navy i ran into hannah sun, ankur, lekkha, allan and jenessa, and saw amanda villegas and kelly delong. the first five i stopped and talked to, the last two i avoided. crazy. high school is all around me!! anyways, the moral of this story is that christmas shopping stresses me out and i find myself forgetting about jesus. but it's all about jesus! so forget all this presents and lines and parking nonsense. yay jesus!! celebrate, christ is born!

i had a funny story to write about. but i forgot what it was. dangit.

hey, to all my friends who read this-- sorry about the lack of christmas cards. um.... i promise, you'll get an easter card.

man, my house is fuuuun. fun and craaaaaazy. currently living in my house is my momma, my daddy, my brother, my sister, my aunt, my cousin, and another distant cousin. fun times. seriously though, me, phil and sarah get pretty crazy when we're together. and the more people get thrown in the mix, the crazier. let me just tell you about chewbacca.
chewbacca is a 7 ft tall cardboard cutout of, well, chewbacca, from star wars. i got it for my 16th birthday. lately, we've been having fun putting it in random places in the house and scaring people. we put it in the hallway, and scared the crap out of yoori (mycousin) and my aunt. we put it in front of phil's room, and he scared himself. this is just endless amusement. it's great.

oh dude! i watched two towers the other night! it was great. i really liked it. i still can't tell whether i like it or fellowship better. two towers is a fun movie to watch. all i gotta say is: aragorn and legolas. ooooooh yeah. mmmm mmm. seriously, those two men kick ass. and are hot. viggo and orlando. wow. the rest of the cast is pretty good too. just not as hot.

i still got mad christmas shopping to do! wish me luck, i gotta brave the malls. dum dum dum.

hey! i'm still home, still lovin' it. slept in this morning-- woo! it is rainy and nasty and rainy and nasty outside, so i'm thinking today is a stay at home watch tlc and abc family all day kind of day. love it.

so now that i'm a senior in college, i've found that i'm hanging out with and talking too high school people more than i ever have before weird. yesterday, i went to valley fair-- my mall. it's so different now! but still cool. i ran into helen kimm, which was great. she's cool, one of the girls i hung out with a lot in high school. then i ran into pam chang! i haven't seen that girl since summer after graduation. crazy. it was fun talking to her.... she hooked me up with some MAD high school gossip. last night, i proceeded to call up my girl bonnie, and i might hang out with her and nat and les tonight. and i'll definitely hang out with ankur. craaaazy. go lynbrook. go vikes. uh... yeah.

i bought tickets to go see two towers tomorrow. can't wait.

YO! i'm back in rainy, grey california!! wahoooo!!! despite the rainy weather, it is NICE to be back home. have i ever told you how much i love my momma's cookin? well, i do!

new york was freaking great. i had a wonderful time. janet and jess are the best unnis in the world, and june kim rocks. i watched Rent at the Nederlander Theater last night with june. it was awesome. guess who was in it. mr. n'sync himself, joey fatone!! he was actually surprisingly good. he has a great voice- they should get him to sing more and that justin fella to sing less. and he was funny too... mark was less angsty, more funny this time. the cast was great (except that i really didn't dig angel) and as always i just love the music in this show. it's so fun to listen to and to watch.

potluck tonight at church. hooray! can't wait to see all the folks.

also, got my grades back. i am a freakin' rock star!

Hey! i had a great day today. we started our day out by heading down to chinatown and getting some dim sum. yum yum. then we headed up to tkts in times square to get show tickets... dude, we waited in line for like an hour and a half, and it was FREEZING. but worth it. picked up some show tickets for 50 bucks. nice.
after getting the tickets, we headed back down to soho and got coffee/hot chocolate. we had dinner in union square at a place called chat and chew-- yum yum.

then we went at watched the show. what show, you ask? FLOWER DRUM SONG!!!! hooray! flower drum song is a musical written in the 50s by rodgers and hammerstein, and is basically the only musical that expressly features asian american performers. it was made into a movie during the 60s or 70s featuring nancy kwon. anyways, here's my show review:
first of all, we had GREAT seats. 18th row orchestra. great view. this show was awesome. i was really impressed-- it was better than i thought it would be for some reason. the performances were all great. seriously, anyone who says that the reason asian americans are not in theater/movies/tv more are because there aren't enough talented AA performers can just eat ddong and then watch this show. the caliber of the actors and actresses was amazing. top to bottom, the acting, dancing and singing were all great. randall duk kim and jodi long, two veteran AA actors, were amazing. sandra allen as linda low was such an awesome triple threat. jose llana as Ta sings beautifully-- he can belt it!. and lea salonga. wow. lea salonga. she's an okay actress, but she is just an amazing singer. she has such a beautiful voice. i feel so lucky i got to see her live. the ensemble was good too-- one of the chicks, kim varhola, is an NU alum!
okay, the book was pretty good too. this is SUCH a rodgers and hammerstein musical-- hokey, formulaic, very sweet. david henry hwang managed to keep all the songs and some of the main themes of the original, but took all the odd stereotypes and used the songs/scenes to mock them and make a point out of it. the staging and new plot were pretty creative and fun to watch (the chop suey number-- ohman!), and thoughtful. he brought up some very interesting themes. so david henry hwang-- lots of exposition and monologue, very asian american male empowerment. seriously, he's all about empowering asian americans, and asian-american males in general. yes, all my asian american brothers out there, YOU ARE HOT!! and strong and manly and thoughtful and wonderful. : )
so, if you're ever in new york in the next couple months, go to see flower drum song. i would recommend it thoroughly.

also, i would just like to say that amateur night at the apollo is so stinking funny/sad. so stinkin' funny cause you can kinda tell when someone is gonna be baaaaad, and then when they just get their ass booed off the stage in the first couple of seconds, you just gotta laugh. but also sad, cause everyone and their mama is booing them.

ok, time to get to bed. i'm tiiired. and it's been a long day.

Hey! Guess what? Guess where I am?? I am currently sitting on the computer of sweet Jess Ko, my former roommate and current friend. wooo hooo! New York is cold and rainy- that sucks. But it's the home of Jess Ko, Janet Choi and Brian Chang, and that's coooool. We're gonna be having some maaaad fun...

OH MY GOODNESS. I am a winner!! I entered the Norris Lord of the Rings promotional contest, and I WON a free DVD!!! hoooooray! I am a winner!!

You wanna know what's universal? As soon as a drop of wetness hits the streets, all of a sudden all of the drivers become craaaaaaazy. Whether in Chicago, San Jose, New York, wherever, it happens. Kinda kooky like that. People! Driving in rain is not the apocolypse! Just drive carefully! geez.

I (heart) NY!!

Hey! Yes, I know it's been foreva since i've updated this sucka, but that's just because finals have been kicking my ass. However, as of 4 PM today, i am DONE with fall quarter 2002!! hooray! crazy how fast it's gone. this has been a fun/crazy/sad/wonderful quarter.

you wanna know how my week has been? i think it can pretty much be defined by by two words: NORRIS and LIBRARY. i've spent embarassingly long amounts of time at these two places this week, computer in tow. but i'm proud that i got a lot of work done this week-- i finished BOTH of my papers on tuesday night, and wednesday night i finished my 20 pg. paper at midnight.

hey guess what? I'm flying to new york city tomorrow! hooray going to see jessica ko, janet choi and the rest of the crazy ny folks. can't wait-- i've never been to new york at christmastime! my flight arrives at 7:08 pm at laguardia, for all those interested. my plan is to chill with jess and see some cool christmas-y type of stuff. oh, and maybe watch drumline! hahah!

so if you happen to talk to me today, ask me what i did last night (thursday night). i had lots of fun.

i'm going to go fold my laundry now. i know that this blog is spectacularly boring and un-witty, but bear with me, finals has sucked all the creative, fun, lively juices out of my body and turned my into a listless zombie. muuuussstt sleeeeeeeeepppp.

Day Two of finals. I have to write an 8-10 and a 6-8 page paper today.
Yesterday, I was at Norris until 2:30. I don't think I'm going to do that today. No more Norris and library until tomorrow. I need a break from that black hole.
Oh who am I kidding? of course I'll be at the library or Norris. Sigh.

Only four more days until I fly to New York!! Hooray!

so i've been reading christine's blogs, and i'm just feeling really jealous and inadequete right now. and i can't figure out how to spell inadequete. hmph. anyways, i wish i was that clever! but i'm not. and yes, i did tell her she looks like hell. but out of love : )

Hey! guess where i am right now??? yep, that's right, ding ding ding!! the library! finished my frickin' islam final at two, headed to the library and three, and am gonna be here till dinner, when i head over to norris to try and bum some food off of someone. then i'll stay there and write write write some more.

i am the woman with the plan:
today i am going to study allllll day for islam, with study breaks to try and process my 20 pg paper a little more. i'll be at norris till around 4 AM. that's the plan for today.
tomorrow after my final i'm going to take a wee little break, then i'm going to write write write more of this stupid 20 pager.
tuesday i'm going to spend the day writing my 10 pg. asian american cinema paper and my 8 pg music paper.
wednesday i'm going to write write write and finish this stupid poli sci paper.
sound good? what do you think?

i'm at the library right now. trying to write this 20 pg paper. it's not going so well. it's a hard paper to write. i am very very in trouble.
i also need to start studying for my monday final. crrrraaaaap.

ok. so on the study room computer, my template is changed. but on my computer it is not. what the..? what its going on? well, if you're computer shows that my template has changed, good for you! ho hummmm.....

so, i guess i changed my template. have i mentioned i don't really know how to work this thing?

so reading week is almost over. it's been pretty much one of the most unproductive reading week's i've ever had. and also the saddest/most confusing/emotionally draining one too. i've gotten almost no work done. which is problematic, considering i have a final tomorrow, a final monday, a 6-8 and an 8-10 page paper wednesday and a 20 pg paper thursday. let the games begin.
one thing this week has made me realize is how much i love my friends. so to all my friends out there- thank you for being you.

things have been not so great out here. i guess all we can really do is pray.
finals are next week, but they just don't seem that important anymore.
i don't really know what i'm thinking right now, so this blog is going to be kind of on hold for the next couple days.
there are these song lyrics that keep running through my head:
"i got a question
i got a question
where are You?"

no update.
just pray.

hello! yes, i know i didn't post yesterday, and you missed me terribly : )
so the weekend is almost over. saaaaaad. i had such a fun weekend. yesterday, i ate bi bim bop for lunch. then studied. then ate chipotle for dinner. then watched singin in the rain. today was similar. except that i went to church, had a bagel for lunch, moved back into dz, drove jason to NAPERVILLE, and ate dinner at chevy's. so really, not similar at all.
man, jason is fun. have i ever told you about my church friends? my home church is bethel kumc in santa clara, california. most of my friends there i've either known my whole life or feel like i've known my whole life. i think i've known jason since i was four. he's like my brother. so when we hang out, me and sarah and jason have so much fun. i really want some other bethel people to visit too-- this means you susanna han and jane kim!!!
ho hum what else? oh, so i was reading gela's blog the other day, and she was talking about wanting a big brother, and how it would be nice to have had one growing up to fart on her pillow and go to sleep having a pillow smelling like butt. and i was reading that thinking, oh my goodness, that is my life. i have an older brother. he occasionally beat me up growing up. he DEFINITELY farted on me and my sister's pillow. big stinky nasty ones that would leave my pillow reeking like nasty minsoo fart, giving me no option but to change pillow cases. and i'm not exaggerating. i am part of the "my big brother farted on my pillow when i was a kid" club. wait a minute. he still does sometimes.
i have a new way of speaking. i add an "izz" to everything. as in "i got drizzunk" last night." or "that is brizzilliant." jason and sarah and julie also started speaking like that this weekend. emmy and christine and tina think this is crazy. but i'll show them. soon they too will speak like hannah!! haaahahahahahaaa.
i'm watching harry potter tonight. for the third time. third time's the charm. lucky three. ok, i just LOVE harry potter, and i love spending time with some cool girls. and, i don't want to do work. so that's why.